Professor of Medical Physics, Informatics and Medical Education, and Director of the Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Chair, HL7 Hellas
Panagiotis Bamidis is a Professor of Medical Physics, Informatics and Medical Education and Director of the Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation in the School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece, and Director of the AUTH MSc course on Biomedical Engineering. He designs, implements, and evaluates Digital Health and Assistive Technologies systems that improve everyday activities of elderly or other vulnerable groups and improves their health or life quality or improves the education and training of health professionals. He conducts research that attempts to understand how the brain reacts to different stimuli, technological or educational interventions, as well as the development and evolution of human emotions and sleep transitions. Co-creation and Living Lab approaches are within his active interests. He is the co-ordinator of more than 12 large European projects, and the principal investigator for many national and international funded projects (>100 in total, 5 of which are Joint Actions in e-Health/Digital/Integrated Heath). He is the President of the Hellenic Biomedical Technology Society, HL7 Hellas and the co-chair of Athens Digital Health Week series of events. He has received Prizes for the Best Track Record in funded research projects and the Best overall high/extra-ordinary academic performance.
